diminishable

The noise from the construction site is diminishable with proper soundproofing.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Capable of being made smaller or reduced: "diminishable" describes something that can be decreased in size, amount, intensity, or importance.
   • Able to be lessened: It refers to qualities, quantities, or conditions that can be diminished or reduced.

Usage Examples

• (The profits cannot be easily reduced.)
• (The pain can be lessened.)
• (Her enthusiasm can be reduced by negative feedback.)

Advanced Usage

• "Scarcely diminishable": used to describe something that is almost impossible to reduce.

  • The trust between them is scarcely diminishable, even after the argument. (The trust is very hard to lessen.)

• "Easily diminishable": something that can be reduced without much effort.

  • The water supply in the desert is easily diminishable during a drought. (The water can be quickly decreased.)

Variants and Related Words

• Diminish (verb): to make or become smaller or less.
  • The storm's intensity began to diminish as it moved inland. (The storm weakened.)
• Diminishment (noun): the act or process of reducing something.
  • The diminishment of natural resources is a global concern. (The reduction of resources.)
• Diminished (adjective): reduced in size, extent, or importance.
  • He played a diminished role in the new government. (His role was made smaller.)

Synonyms

• Reducible: able to be made smaller or less.
• Decreasable: capable of being lessened in amount.
• Lessenable: able to be made less in degree or intensity.

Related Idioms

• "Diminishable as a candle in the wind": a poetic expression meaning something that can be easily reduced or extinguished.
  • Their hope was diminishable as a candle in the wind after the disaster. (Their hope was fragile and easily lessened.)